Olivier Assayas has built a career examining morally ambiguous figures within complex political landscapes. From Carlos the Jackal to the Cuban Five, the French filmmaker has a knack for finding ...

It’s close to an hour into “The Wizard of the Kremlin” before Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) shows up, but as soon as he does, exuding a calm whiplash anger and threat, he brings the movie into laser-like ...

Here’s a novel idea: Vladimir Putin had his own version of reality producer Mark Burnett aiding in his rise to power, morphing from a TV producer to a key figure in everything from Russia’s global ...

The expression “show, don’t tell” is an expression that Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin could've listened to. After an introduction that essentially states that this is a work of fiction, ...

The two actors are compelling, but Olivier Assayas’s film has an episodic, one-thing-after-another quality that doesn’t allow it to gather force. It’s close to an hour into “The Wizard of the Kremlin” ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...